Sofia Ranchordás (born 1985 in Porto, Portugal) studied law at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Portugal (LLB and LLM, summa cum laude), Law Economics at the University of Utrecht (LLM, cum laude) and obtained her PhD cum laude at Tilburg Law School and the University of Antwerp in 2014 (double doctorate, Prize for Best Dissertation of Tilburg University 2014). She then served as a visiting scholar at George Washington University Law School (2014) and Resident Fellow (postdoc) at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (2015-2016). In 2016, Ranchordás returned to the Netherlands for the position of Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative law at the University of Leiden (June 2016-September 2017) before becoming Associate Professor with ius promovendi (September 2017-December 2020) and Full Professor of European and comparative public law at the University of Groningen (since December 2020). Since 2021 Ranchordás has also been part-time Professor of Public Law, Innovation and Sustainability at LUISS Guido Carli. She has received several awards and grants for her work, including a Niels Stensen Fellowship and fellowships from the Knight Foundation, KNAW, Independent Social Research Foundation, Norwegian Research Council, and NWO Smart Governance. Her scholarship is published with leading law journals and publishers such as Computer Law & Security, Duke Law Journal, Oxford University Press, and Cambridge University.